Jen Lin-Liu

Jen Lin Liu - Serve the People - Thursday, September 11 at 7:30pmPlease check back soon for more event information.

The Beijing Olympics offered people a tantalizing look at China. Now freelance journalist and food writer Jen Lin-Liu takes us beyond the Bird’s Nest on a cook's tour of today's China. From her days as a cooking student to noodle-stall and dumpling-house apprentice to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant, ... (more)she presents an unforgettable slice of contemporary China in the full swing of social and economic transformation.

Jen Lin Liu discusses and signs Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China
Southern Californian native Jen Lin Liu went to China in 2000 as a Fulbright Scholar and has lived there ever since, writing as a freelance journalist and food writer for Time Out Beijing, Zagat and Frommers. In Serve ... (more)The People (part travelogue, part memoir, part kitchen-confidential), Lin Liu takes us on a cook's tour through today's China as she progresses from cooking student to noodle-stall and dumpling-house apprentice to intern at a chic Shanghai restaurant. Every Literaries Who Lunch event is free and open to the public. Delicious sandwiches are available from Europane bakery for $13.95 + tax. If you would like a lunch from Europane, you must call Vroman’s customer service at
(626) 449-5320, no later than September 4 to place your order.